Re: [AFMUG] Java

2020-08-28 Thread Colin Stanners
I don't use much Ubnt other than AirFiber and GPON, but I haven't seen any Java being used since the AF5X non-HD series. Can't think of any radio manufacturer that has implemented a Java-requiring interface within the last 3 years. On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 9:02 PM Chuck McCown wrote: > Is UBNT

[AFMUG] Virtual conference / event options

2020-08-17 Thread Colin Stanners
One small advantage of the pandemic is the number of conferences and events that can be now 'attended' online, without travel. The Software-Defined Radio Academy had an event a month ago. TAPR amateur radio group's Digital communications Conference is in mid-september; following that is the GNU

Re: [AFMUG] starlink speed test results!

2020-08-13 Thread Colin Stanners
It'll be a threat to NLOS fixed wireless, but the LOS services that can do 100-200mbit+ should be safe. Still a massive improvement over other satellite services. On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 7:36 PM Tushar Patel, wrote: > If those results held up, this may not be a real threat to fixed wireless. >

Re: [AFMUG] Radio Mobile help

2020-08-05 Thread Colin Stanners
Could you take 2 screenshots, one of when it's working, one when it's not? Is all your landcover data cached/downloaded to your PC so that it doesn't need to re-download every time, possibly failing if the server is busy? On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:29 AM Jay Weekley wrote: > Do any Radio Mobile

Re: [AFMUG] OT Undersea cable

2020-07-29 Thread Colin Stanners
: > I did. None. The USDA is working to get a fiber out to Unalaska but I > need to go about 400 miles more. > > *From:* Colin Stanners > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 29, 2020 10:22 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Undersea cable >

Re: [AFMUG] OT Undersea cable

2020-07-29 Thread Colin Stanners
Also, did you check with https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ and https://www.infrapedia.com/ (needs login) to make sure that there isn't already cable nearby? On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:07 AM Colin Stanners wrote: > There are big companies like Alcatel Submarine networks. For a smal

Re: [AFMUG] OT Undersea cable

2020-07-29 Thread Colin Stanners
There are big companies like Alcatel Submarine networks. For a smaller and likely easier-to-speak-with company, you can try Crosslake fiber. If you want general information on the undersea industry, I can send a number of informative links. On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:57 AM wrote: > Anyone know

Re: [AFMUG] OT - political

2020-07-19 Thread Colin Stanners
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/anti-fascist-teenagers-seeking-revolution-behind-continued-portland-riots I don't want to encourage political threads on AFMUG but... Some people just want to watch the world burn. Current situations in the world mean that those people can tag onto a reason or

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Details on the Starlink router

2020-07-15 Thread Colin Stanners
Doing some math: 40K subscribers on 60 satellites is 666 subs/satellite if equally loaded. But load is far from equal, the planet surface is 70% water. I don't know how much the "standard" orbit is over water but let's say 50% as it's further from the poles. Say that at any point in time, around

Re: [AFMUG] VPN?

2020-06-23 Thread Colin Stanners
ging the WiFi password, along with stuff > I have no problem with like snaking a long Ethernet cable down the hallway > from the router to their bedroom. All in the name of gaming superiority. > > > > > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *Colin Stanners > *Sent:* Monday, June 22, 202

Re: [AFMUG] VPN?

2020-06-22 Thread Colin Stanners
To how many different hosts is the traffic going? That'll give you an idea if it's VPN or something like TOR. Usually if customers are doing something weird and complaining about performance, we first say to stop that weird activity so that our benchmarks (speed / ping / MTR tests) work. On Mon,

Re: [AFMUG] PtP 450 900mhz co-location with FSK or 450i PMP?

2020-05-31 Thread Colin Stanners
There was a discussion abut 2 weeks ago, starting at Thu May 14 4:52 PM, on this topic that I recommend reading. On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:39 AM Brandon Yuchasz wrote: > Anyone running a PtP 450 900mhz backhaul on the same tower as 450i or FSK > 900mhz equipment? Since the PTP unit does not

[AFMUG] ePMP3000 AP spatial diversity - has anyone tried it?

2020-05-29 Thread Colin Stanners
We have a tower site with customers across a lake, a few miles from the tower. On 2.4Ghz PMP100 and 3.65Ghz PMP450 platforms, the occasional thermal ducting / reflection across the lake will cause signal loss and slowdowns / disconnections in rare and non-uniform cases. I had been looking at

Re: [AFMUG] Need to purchase 2200 feet of Corning SMF-28e+

2020-05-28 Thread Colin Stanners
I'm assuming that you want it as a cable, not just the bare hair-sized fiber. Now many strands in the cable? indoor or outdoor or both? if the latter, armoured? On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 2:36 AM Paul McCall wrote: > Anybody have this in stock? > > > > *Corning SMF-28e+* > > 2200ft. > > > > *Paul

Re: [AFMUG] Determine PMP100 IP

2020-05-18 Thread Colin Stanners
IIRC those models send out a few packets with their IP address after boot-up so you can use Wireshark to figure out the IP address from a PC directly connected to the radio. On Mon, May 18, 2020, 4:52 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > I thought that 169.254.1.1 was fairly universal. Should a PMP100 AP

Re: [AFMUG] Sync 900 MHz PMP100 and PTP450i?

2020-05-14 Thread Colin Stanners
In the FSK days, PTP series did their own sync details based on link distance and didn't fully sync to the APs. I suspect that that remains - most importantly, even if there was sync between the PTP450I and PMP100 AP, I understand that in your case the PTP slave and AP are co-located so the sync

Re: [AFMUG] ePMP "Avenger"

2020-04-29 Thread Colin Stanners
I suspect they saw Ubiquiti ripping up a lot of their lower-end market and taking some larger-scale contracts, and they wanted to fight back, thus ePMP. On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:51 AM can...@believewireless.net < p...@believewireless.net> wrote: > Who are they "avenging?" > > On Wed, Apr 29,

Re: [AFMUG] suction cup mounts

2020-04-24 Thread Colin Stanners
I think it's only been in the last dozen years that the low-E glass that blocks RF has gotten popular. At least around here, few places have it other than brand-new houses. On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:23 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > Apparently Ubiquiti made a mounting bracket for attacking a

Re: [AFMUG] That Darn Cat!

2020-04-24 Thread Colin Stanners
In the past we used non-armoured fiber for house installs, and there are cases where we can't put the fiber CPE in a utilitity room/closet, so it would be on a desk somewhere with the fiber line near the floor and more easily damaged. We had a customer who had many uncontrolled cats... Visited

Re: [AFMUG] OT business decorum

2020-04-24 Thread Colin Stanners
It's not just the business world or a physical area, I noticed that a small but vocal percentage of the population, often young, has started to use the F-word excessively in a few contexts, trying to be "edgy" or showing that they don't care about others' opinions. When I've commented on it the

Re: [AFMUG] South Dakota

2020-04-15 Thread Colin Stanners
I request to put the OT: header on anything that is not quite directly WISP-related... As much as I enjoy the good coronavirus and other conversations that the smart and reasonable people on this list have, I'd like to keep the non-WISP conversations filterable. Thank you. On Wed, Apr 15, 2020,

Re: [AFMUG] OT Odd

2020-04-02 Thread Colin Stanners
https://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/cvzdm9/strange_behavior_from_google_login/ On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:45 PM wrote: > Went to log into gmail and it came up with ksdpm...@gmail.com all ready > filled out. > Pretty sure nobody has had physical access to this computer for months... > -- >

Re: [AFMUG] Good Home UPS

2020-03-29 Thread Colin Stanners
Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Good Home UPS > > > > Hard to go wrong with a Generac. They really are not that expensive. > > > > *From:* Colin Stanners > > *Sent:* Sunday, March 29, 2020 9:48 AM > > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] G

Re: [AFMUG] Good Home UPS

2020-03-29 Thread Colin Stanners
al >> conversion, replaceable battery, and Powerpole connector for external >> extended runtime battery. But the fan runs all the time and it would >> probably drive you crazy in a bedroom or home office. And if your >> electronics aren’t fussy about the quality of the

Re: [AFMUG] Good Home UPS

2020-03-29 Thread Colin Stanners
We've seen many people use the APC Back-UPS series for a long time without issues. Older models had replaceable batteries and will often work fine with a new battery; they don't have a calibration command so it's good to put a light load (30-50%) and let them run down to empty once or twice so

Re: [AFMUG] Actual cell coverage maps

2020-03-23 Thread Colin Stanners
I've found the maps here to be quite accurate, likely as they are for industry use and aren't filtered through a marketing department: https://www.gsma.com/coverage/ Keep in mind that it does not include the companies' coverage that is obtained by tower-sharing on others' networks. On Mon, Mar

[AFMUG] ePMP Force 300-25 Ethernet port cover

2020-03-18 Thread Colin Stanners
We have a few ePMP Force 300-25 radios that are missing the Ethernet port cover. Does anyone have any that they somehow don't need? Cambium does not seem to sell them separately. (We will be speaking with one of the installers about being careful not losing them...) -- AF mailing list

Re: [AFMUG] licensed link high/low question

2020-03-13 Thread Colin Stanners
To my knowledge the radios and dishes have enough isolation that H/L match at a site is not necessary unless you're almost pointing in the same direction with those dishes (or have a TX frequency at one site overlapping a RX) . The opposite polarity increases the isolation so you have even less

Re: [AFMUG] COVID-19 and WISPAmerica

2020-03-11 Thread Colin Stanners
no WISPAmerica -> WISPs lose opportunity to gain knowledge and buy new products -> WISP industry stagnates and becomes confused -> slowdown and later failure of rural and underserved internet access -> rural and underserved areas can't act like Karens on Facebook or obtain pornography -> utter

Re: [AFMUG] Bandwidth / Usage

2020-03-10 Thread Colin Stanners
One province over, usage for us is on the high side but I wouldn't call it unusual. Some big game updates or a popular new series on Netflix probably. I thought that Silo was disappearing into the Xplornet fold? Andreas, you need to buy and retire to an island on the lakes. On Tue, Mar 10,

Re: [AFMUG] RB4011 Lockups

2020-03-10 Thread Colin Stanners
What kind of issue? I haven't heard model-specific bugs with those so they should "just work" forever. On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:57 PM wrote: > We have been having a similar issue with a RB2011iL-iN . > > -Original Message- > From: Darren Shea > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 3:31 PM > To:

Re: [AFMUG] RB4011 Lockups

2020-03-10 Thread Colin Stanners
If you see enough problems that you're putting in a a remote PDU - replace the router before putting in the PDU unless absolutely nothing else than the RB4011 will work. On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:31 PM Darren Shea wrote: > I only have one RB4011 in the field, but it seems to have a problem a >

Re: [AFMUG] RB4011 Lockups

2020-03-08 Thread Colin Stanners
y weird until you do a clean > reboot. Mikrotik support can verify if this is the issue from the supout > file. > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 1:46 PM Colin Stanners wrote: > >> Are they on the same customer data "path"? I saw a note that an >> occasional CCR freeze

Re: [AFMUG] RB4011 Lockups

2020-03-07 Thread Colin Stanners
Are they on the same customer data "path"? I saw a note that an occasional CCR freeze with recent firmware was possibly due to the h232 NAT translator. On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 12:33 PM Nate Burke wrote: > It's just strange that these have been deployed for Months, but 2 locked > up in the same

Re: [AFMUG] RB4011 Lockups

2020-03-07 Thread Colin Stanners
I think that this is only about the RB4011 hardware. There were reports in the MikroTik forum about some users experiencing lockups on RB4011 - more than I have seen with other models. I had opened a support ticket with MikroTik asking if there was some kind of hardware lockup issue with the

Re: [AFMUG] 2.4GHz panel / small sector

2020-03-03 Thread Colin Stanners
https://www.winncom.com/en/products/f-141-245-339/2.3-2.7-ghz ~60 degree beamwidth would mean ~7-15dBi gain depending on the beamwidth in the other direction - check out those Mars antennas https://www.winncom.com/en/products/MA-WC2458-2H2B that may match your desired specs. On Tue, Mar 3, 2020

[AFMUG] "Generic" 5Ghz dual-pol replacement feedhorns?

2020-02-25 Thread Colin Stanners
We have a number of 2-3ft single-pol 5ghz antennas sitting around the shop, and in many cases prefer not to pair them up into a dual-pol peanut on the tower. For more robust antennas like Radiowaves/Andrews, the options to replace the feedhorn to turn them into a dual-pol model range from

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Corona-fu (was UBNT stock)

2020-02-25 Thread Colin Stanners
tter (and worse) healthcare > systems than China, but it’s gonna spread worldwide. Masks, thermometers > and quarantine don’t seem to be magic bullets. Buy lots of hand soap, and > stay off cruise ships. > > > > https://www.vox.com/2020/2/23/21149327/coronavirus-pan

Re: [AFMUG] OT: Corona-fu (was UBNT stock)

2020-02-22 Thread Colin Stanners
It seems that America's enemies know that the best way to have America's economy crumble is to let the Trump rallies go on fully unimpeded. A kill rate of 2% seems small as statistic, but that's still a few thousand currently dead, including many medical staff, who are being mourned by their

Re: [AFMUG] 4 Sale

2020-02-21 Thread Colin Stanners
I wouldn't use such repaired equipment for revenue-generating purposes that need reliability, but the amateur radio wide-area 2.3Ghz / 5.9Ghz WAN project that I'm involved in is mostly all donated / repaired gear, and I've gotten good at estimating longevity. If I'm already going through batch

Re: [AFMUG] Facebook's gigabit wireless rolls out in Puerto Rico | Engadget

2020-02-19 Thread Colin Stanners
60Ghz will go through buildings as long as their walls / doors are shoji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:44 AM wrote: > Well the press release talked about it going “through buildings”. ... > > > *From:* Ken Hohhof > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 19, 2020 9:06

Re: [AFMUG] Facebook's gigabit wireless rolls out in Puerto Rico | Engadget

2020-02-19 Thread Colin Stanners
Gino, this looks great for you, just note that in that picture there is a flat-faced part of a mount on both sides of a round pole. I don't recommend doing so as the flat face can "swivel" around the pole with vibration or one end can "slide" down further than the other, which may be issue with

Re: [AFMUG] mass GPS issues

2020-02-18 Thread Colin Stanners
I'm still disappointed that MediaTek (MT333x chip?) and / or GlobalTop allowed a "should be easily caught in testing" bug such as this date rollover case to happen. How many other industries were affected...? On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:13 AM Steve Jones wrote: > we know its coming so its not a

[AFMUG] Cambium 30V brick PoE RJ45 finicky / connectivity issue?

2020-02-11 Thread Colin Stanners
One of our installers said that he believes that some recent wireless customer Ethernet connectivity issues are due to certain models of the Cambium 30V brick PoE's RJ45 connectors being finicky. Unfortunately such problems are difficult to replicate and diagnose, I have not made headway yet in

Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti stock

2020-02-10 Thread Colin Stanners
Can we re-start this thread as OT: as it's no longer strongly related to WISP topics? Unless we wish to change the subject to equipment sourcing; from my recent communications and attempts it seems like a big part of the world's fiber SFPs are manufactured in the Shenzhen region. My understanding

Re: [AFMUG] mytax illinois inaccessible to NAT customers

2020-01-27 Thread Colin Stanners
A long time ago we had an issue where a banking website wouldn't function for a specific customer on dual-NAT, but it functioned when they were put on a public IP. I believe that it was a combination of a too-strict / over-bureaucratic firewall at the bank's end and the NAT affecting path MTU

Re: [AFMUG] Fwd: Limited run of AW3464 900mhz dual-slant omnis actually available

2020-01-23 Thread Colin Stanners
hat is > in there. The H pattern is very circular so it is not an array of patches > I don’t think. I dunno, maybe it is. > > I had an array of patches wrapped around a foam core for doing this about > 10 years ago. Don’t recall why I didn't finish the product. > > *From:

[AFMUG] Fwd: Limited run of AW3464 900mhz dual-slant omnis actually available

2020-01-23 Thread Colin Stanners
FYI There are more of these available. -- Forwarded message - From: Colin Stanners Date: Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 6:12 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Limited run of AW3464 900mhz dual-slant omnis actually available To: For those who can fit some in their network/business plan, a limited run

Re: [AFMUG] OT Swimming Pools

2020-01-21 Thread Colin Stanners
Yes but spruced up and at scale. Like Facebook is just multiplayer, spammier Microsoft Word. On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 8:14 AM Ken Hohhof wrote: > You just described a bathtub. > > > > *From:* AF *On Behalf Of *Colin Stanners > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 21, 2020 2:19 AM

Re: [AFMUG] OT Swimming Pools

2020-01-21 Thread Colin Stanners
I feel that as a society we tend to have the wrong approach to most pools - using recirculated old water, spending time and money on chemicals such as chlorine (that can cause a variety of annoying issues) to try to hide how dirty the water is while not actually making it cleaner or healthier. I

Re: [AFMUG] CAD software

2019-12-23 Thread Colin Stanners
I've used DraftSight, which is quite good and had a free edition, but all of the free editions will de-activate on Dec31st this year so if you wish to learn that you don't have much time. The paid version is reasonably priced but you cannot buy it, only subscription. On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 8:52

Re: [AFMUG] Replacement Telrad CPE9000 and 12000 POE

2019-12-16 Thread Colin Stanners
SmarterBroadband wrote: > Here you go. > > > > *From:* AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Colin Stanners > *Sent:* Friday, December 13, 2019 9:05 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Replacement Telrad CPE9000 and 12000 P

Re: [AFMUG] Replacement Telrad CPE9000 and 12000 POE

2019-12-13 Thread Colin Stanners
Adam, can you provide a photo of the label from these CPEs? On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 1:46 PM SmarterBroadband wrote: > Has anyone found a source of replacement POE’s for Telrad CPE9000 and > 12000. > > > > Thanks > > > > Adam > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com >

Re: [AFMUG] tired of entitled streamers

2019-11-17 Thread Colin Stanners
Chuck, if you don't mind me asking, what happened to those businesses that you don't operate anymore? I remember that you used to have a Radio Shack franchise, and that is a "market shifted / disappeared" type of situation. On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 9:31 AM , wrote: > Yes, gross profit for a small

Re: [AFMUG] tired of entitled streamers

2019-11-17 Thread Colin Stanners
That number is way off unless you live in a desert / have the tower next door / get hardware for free. Rural environment = lots of trees = 900mhz on big towers is often required. A Cambium 900mhz 450I AP and sector is $2K USD, and tower climbers, pulling cable up a big tower, driving to a

[AFMUG] Thomas Freeburg

2019-11-08 Thread Colin Stanners
I was doing some research, visited the Bitlomat site (remember them?) and googled Thomas Freeburg, who was instrumental in creating the Canopy system. Turns out that he died in 2018. RIP great engineer.

Re: [AFMUG] Exalt Extendair Antenna Interface

2019-11-08 Thread Colin Stanners
I believe that all Exalt radios have a proprietary interface that's a tiny bit difference from other licensed radio waveguide interfaces. Radiowaves sells retrofit kits, I believe that on most of their dishes these can be installed from the back and without taking down the dish /radome. E.g. to

Re: [AFMUG] RF Goggles

2019-11-05 Thread Colin Stanners
I have a pretty good idea to create some, but it's a massive project and I constantly lack energy and time... On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 9:48 PM Ken Hohhof wrote: > Still not a thing? > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- AF mailing list

Re: [AFMUG] Cheap PC with OBM

2019-10-25 Thread Colin Stanners
>From my research into this, you may want to look into Lantronix Spider KVM or https://www.kvm-switches-online.com/eric-g4.html or the replacement card listed in that link. On Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 4:20 PM Nate Burke wrote: > Short of stuffing a rack sized server out in the field, is there a

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber question

2019-10-21 Thread Colin Stanners
Assuming that by switching you mean with network switches / powered, at least in our jurisdiction it seems that most authorities don't want anything new in the RoW with an electrical meter - so you need to buy / long-term lease from a private owner. If this may become an important site, it's

Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik CRS switches

2019-10-18 Thread Colin Stanners
I've worked with hundreds of MikroTiks in all environments over many years and, except for one weird case (changing MTU to 9000 on CCR1072 causing strange port behaviour), can't recall the last time that a reboot was needed for one. I'd suspect that a site requiring that many reboots has something

Re: [AFMUG] Ceragon 39GHz

2019-10-02 Thread Colin Stanners
If they have Ethernet interfaces, and you're far from civilization, and you don't mind the power usage: free house to garage link. On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 11:21 AM Jason McKemie < j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: > Is there any value in these other than scrap metal? -- > AF mailing list >

Re: [AFMUG] 320AP POE Injectors

2019-09-25 Thread Colin Stanners
I believe that we have a lot of them. On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 6:56 AM Paul McCall, wrote: > Anybody have a couple 320AP POE Injectors they can part with? > > > > They are differently wired than standard -+ -+ on 4,5 7.8 > > > > Looking for a few for tech vans for them to program APs in the

Re: [AFMUG] Antel Antenna question

2019-09-21 Thread Colin Stanners
When I had looked into this before, the "old" Antel antenna was purchased by Amphenol in 2003 and the name gradually disappeared. The "new" Chinese company seems unrelated, and likely just used the name since "antenna technology" contraction works and no one else was recently using it. On Sat,

Re: [AFMUG] Is it common to share IPs with outside companies?

2019-09-12 Thread Colin Stanners
I would venture that few companie here do that, and that any that do tend to turn a blind eye to somewhat-legal-but-questionable activities (blogspam etc) as long as there is no contact from authorities and the cheques keep coming in. On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 7:32 PM Chuck Macenski wrote: > I just

Re: [AFMUG] Buried fiber cost?

2019-09-12 Thread Colin Stanners
A. Villarini wrote: > A: concrete > > B: dirt next to road > > > > *From: *AF on behalf of Colin Stanners < > cstann...@gmail.com> > *Reply-To: *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Date: *Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 3:29 PM > *To: *AnimalFarm Microwa

Re: [AFMUG] Buried fiber cost?

2019-09-12 Thread Colin Stanners
In the road (concrete or gravel?) or in dirt next to the road? On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 2:21 PM Gino A. Villarini wrote: > What’s the avg cost for road trenched fiber these days? > > *Gino* > *Villarini *Founder/President > @gvillarini > t: 787.273.4143 Ext. 204 > m: > [image: aeronet-logo]

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber

2019-09-06 Thread Colin Stanners
gt; >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> -- >> *From: *ch...@wbmfg.com >> *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" mailto:af@af.afmug.com >> *Sent: *Friday, September 6, 2019 2:56:

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber

2019-09-06 Thread Colin Stanners
FTTH is a bit difficult to justify in untreed areas where you can do a few hundred Mbps on LOS wireless. But in treed areas that would be limited to <50mbps on wireless, fiber is the best option. To feed towers with the new wireless platforms that can add up to 1Gbps+ per tower, it's only

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber

2019-09-06 Thread Colin Stanners
Then they need to move to underground, as long as it's done well and the other utilities are good with CBYD, chances of problems are very small. On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 11:32 AM Matt Hoppes < mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote: > That's what everyone keeps saying but my fiber provider

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber

2019-09-06 Thread Colin Stanners
That's a very problematic situation, but doing aerial / near-electrical fiber has much bigger risks than (ducted, non-pedastal, well-CBYD-listed) underground; in this case going aerial was their choice / risk. A 2 or 3 man team can do lots of underground work, but a few more people is very

Re: [AFMUG] Fwd: FCC ID SWX-AF60 Application Processed : Ubiquiti Inc. for New Equipment

2019-08-30 Thread Colin Stanners
: > Remember Motorola used to sell Canopy with an FPGA and custom silicon > for $220 in bulk packs. $300 isn't crazy.but you're right to keep > an eye on it. > > -Adam > > > On 8/30/2019 10:21 AM, Colin Stanners wrote: > > > > -The Ubiquiti Early Access store

[AFMUG] Fwd: FCC ID SWX-AF60 Application Processed : Ubiquiti Inc. for New Equipment

2019-08-30 Thread Colin Stanners
Unfortunately the AirFiber 60 FCC submission does not urrently include the user guide, so there's many things that are still unknown about it, but some notes from my quick view: -The Ubiquiti Early Access store lists it for $300. At that low price I'd be quite surprised if it was based on FPGA or

Re: [AFMUG] Cambium Medusa in 3.65

2019-08-20 Thread Colin Stanners
I agree on the PMP320's impressive tree penetration. We moved some sites from PMP320 to PMP450... with the added gain of the PMP450 reflector dish (8+11dBi vs the PMP320's 14dBi) I expected it to make up for the PMP450's lower transmit power, and as a result have "similar" final signal levels. In

Re: [AFMUG] Good UPS with a Physical switch

2019-08-14 Thread Colin Stanners
All UPS are controlled by a microprocessor, so it's a rare design decision to put a rocker switch. If a UPS turns off, that's a definite problem with the microprocessor or hardware, that requires replacement. On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 8:29 AM Paul McCall wrote: > The vast majority of our towers

Re: [AFMUG] Logging into Bridgewave80 without knowing the IPS?

2019-08-12 Thread Colin Stanners
Have you tried booting them up while connected to a PC running Wireshark to see what packets they send out? On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:48 PM Sam Lambie wrote: > We have a set of Bridgewave radios that aren't on our network that were > administered by at least 3 sysadmins. None of them left

Re: [AFMUG] LVD

2019-08-08 Thread Colin Stanners
Usually when batteries get to their LVD point, there is not a lot of runtime left. For non-critical towers, I'd rather have 20% less runtime then risk killing $1000-$2000 of batteries and needing to schedule their replacement. On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 8:57 AM Chuck McCown wrote: > Philosophical

Re: [AFMUG] residential customers that alway claiming "business use"

2019-08-06 Thread Colin Stanners
"Our system shows that you have a residential, non-business package, so please note that our business customers receive priority tech support and service calls over the residential ones. If you wish to upgrade to the business package to enjoy its advantages, I can pass you over to accounting". On

Re: [AFMUG] I think I’m back?

2019-07-22 Thread Colin Stanners
The problem with your old Exchange server IIRC was that an invalid domain name was configured - that would be fast to change. On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 8:13 PM Andreas Wiatowski wrote: > We switched to O365 ...I haven’t been able to participate for quite a > while because of a problem with our

Re: [AFMUG] Best Practices

2019-07-17 Thread Colin Stanners
One of our competitors did that - but they had some cables coming out of weathertights *at the top* of the middle connection box to go to the top connection box, and in some cases had pull on the cables that made those weathertights not-so-tight. Connection boxes got a nice bath. On Wed, Jul 17,

Re: [AFMUG] Best Practices

2019-07-17 Thread Colin Stanners
The only ones that I'd give a hard-no to are to cable in conduit going up the tower (would result in a lot of pull on the cables as they aren't attached for a very long distance; limits upgrade options) and the grease/spray on cat5 ends (unless you're at sea or very humid areas). On Wed, Jul 17,

Re: [AFMUG] Best Practices

2019-07-17 Thread Colin Stanners
I can't answer on the SS guy wires as I don't build the non-residential towers, but usually all the first 3 should be "yes", with some reason (e.g. SSes near the shed entry, but not on the tower next to the radio, which some manufacturers recommend but is excessive / prone to issues IMO). On Wed,

Re: [AFMUG] Wisp value

2019-07-16 Thread Colin Stanners
Unless I'm missing something, paying ~$4K/month for transit ($15k / 3 months late + 1 month for payment) for 250 customers is a huge expense. Either they have some really fast plans, or they're located in the absolute middle of nowhere. On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:29 PM Matt Hoppes <

Re: [AFMUG] Wisp value

2019-07-16 Thread Colin Stanners
At least in our area, tower companies (mostly older 2-way providers) are not buying / building many towers - most of the builds outside of WISPs are cell carriers, who will only use heavier-duty towers than what most WISPs will build. On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 1:50 PM Matt Hoppes <

[AFMUG] Dragonwave DW (~10 years ago) vs DW2 waveguide interface changes

2019-07-16 Thread Colin Stanners
I'm looking to do licensed backhaul changes using a Dragonwave Horizon Duo 18Ghz on existing dishes; during my research I discovered that DW had two different waveguide interfaces, having changed from DW to DW2 around 10 years ago. Does anyone (Chuck or otherwise) know the differences between them

[AFMUG] Fwd: FCC ID Z8H89FT0045 Application Processed : Cambium Networks Inc. for New Equipment

2019-07-10 Thread Colin Stanners
Cambium's 2.3/2.5Ghz LTE Remote Radio Head. -Cambium has gone from obscure C054045A012A part numbers to "2GHz Palisade 220". -I've never heard of "Wuhan Gewei Electronic Technologies", will need to lookup what they do. -192.168.114.200 is a creative default IP. -Not excited to having a

Re: [AFMUG] Fwd: FCC ID Z8H89FT0044 Application Processed : Cambium Networks Inc. for New Equipment

2019-07-09 Thread Colin Stanners
you can feed them at 90 degree angles like this and it acts like two > independent antennas. The current from one feed is at right angles to the > other feed, so theoretically they don’t even see each other. > > *From:* Colin Stanners > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 9, 2019 2:53 PM

Re: [AFMUG] Fwd: FCC ID Z8H89FT0044 Application Processed : Cambium Networks Inc. for New Equipment

2019-07-09 Thread Colin Stanners
s (still in the same plane e.g. -45deg), won't that cancel out the resulting signal? On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 3:40 PM wrote: > I guess when you use cell phone parts you get really small stuff. Dual > slant pol. > > *From:* Colin Stanners > *Sent:* Tuesday, July 9, 2019 12:37 PM > *

[AFMUG] Fwd: FCC ID Z8H89FT0044 Application Processed : Cambium Networks Inc. for New Equipment

2019-07-09 Thread Colin Stanners
Impressive, Cambium's 2.5Ghz LTE CPE may win the award for tiniest / most minimal PCB ever. https://fccid.io/Z8H89FT0044/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photo-4341798 -- Forwarded message - From: FCC ID Alert Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 1:26 PM Subject: FCC ID Z8H89FT0044 Application

Re: [AFMUG] Google Calendar

2019-06-25 Thread Colin Stanners
Lol did all of those people mistakenly / jokingly click accept? Or were they just (like me) interested in learning about pole loading? On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:17 AM Adam Moffett wrote: > Ok, so again I apologize for the meeting invite on list. > > I have deleted the item from my calendar.

Re: [AFMUG] lower cost for military grade fiber patch?

2019-06-25 Thread Colin Stanners
For indoor/house fiber installs, we found that the armoured fiber cable is a godsend in cases of customers' pets chewing on the fiber / excessively tight bends / people putting weight on the fiber. Now I ask the installers to use it exclusively. We get it with "regular" connectors so it is still

Re: [AFMUG] 250 symmetric

2019-06-18 Thread Colin Stanners
Cambium HCMP can't give that much; since the split is fixed the rate goes down very fast with the number of subs. Some 802.11AC TDMA radios in non-fixed-frame / non-synced mode could give those speeds, but not really upload and download at the same time. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:11 PM TJ Trout

Re: [AFMUG] Dumb duplex question

2019-06-06 Thread Colin Stanners
Half duplex will do nothing to help crc errors. Run it at 10mbit full (well 10mbit auto, which will autonegotiate to full) On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 10:20 AM Jay Weekley wrote: > It's a temporary patch to help with CRC errors. A service call has been > scheduled. > > Colin Stanners

Re: [AFMUG] Dumb duplex question

2019-06-06 Thread Colin Stanners
7-9mbit depending on traffic direction mix. But I don't see any reason that you'd wish to unless you were connecting it to an old hub. On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 10:02 AM Jay Weekley wrote: > If I lowered a Cambium PMP100 radio to10 megabit half duplex what would > speed would it be capable of? 5

[AFMUG] Friday for sale: Ubiquiti routers, NOS 5Ghz sectors, older SMs, Exalt Radios

2019-05-31 Thread Colin Stanners
Hi all, we have some gear for sale, located in Canada, but priced in USD since that's where most of you ladies and gentlemen are located. -1x Ubiquiti ER-8 router, tested in office, still under warranty $140 OBO -1x Ubiquiti ER-8-XG router, tested in office, still under warranty $1500 OBO

Re: [AFMUG] wispa.org

2019-05-29 Thread Colin Stanners
Oh no Chuck, someone has released your browser search history! [Calculate propagation velocity of microstrip line on FR4 PCB] [Effect temperature expansion dissimilar metals] [dispersion calculation NEC simulations] [new mexican restaurant Salt Lake City] [mexico unlicensed frequency bands]

[AFMUG] Strange case: elevated water tank near tower causing reflection, ABAB reuse issue?

2019-05-24 Thread Colin Stanners
I have a strange case that I wished to check with you ladies and gentlemen (...or "animals" - we've never established a term for AF members?): I have a tower where we're using 3.65Ghz PMP450 with ABAB frequency re-use (recent installation). Users wouldn't stay connected to the N sector; I ran an

[AFMUG] IPv6 "support"

2019-05-20 Thread Colin Stanners
I've seen terrible design decisions but this is a new level of ridiculous. [image: image.png] -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Re: [AFMUG] ODD : Invitation: TRC Status Call @ Weekly from 9:30am to 10:30am on Tuesday (EDT) (af@af.afmug.com)

2019-05-20 Thread Colin Stanners
I imagine that someone sent out an email using autocomplete and it went to the wrong address. On Mon, May 20, 2019, 11:42 AM Jason McKemie < j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> wrote: > We're all invited! Way to be inclusive! > > On Monday, May 20, 2019, Craig House wrote: > >> I think everybody

Re: [AFMUG] autocorrect

2019-05-20 Thread Colin Stanners
I still have a printed-out copy of a text message from a tech that said something like "it's super difficult to align these buttholes in the wind" "WAIT that was autocorrect". On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 7:24 AM Ken Hohhof wrote: > Received this inquiry via the contact form on our mobile website: >

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